Gentlemen,
I've been getting uneven development in skies (high negative density) when tray developing 8x10 negatives in 8x10 trays (there's adequate size for the neg to lay flat, plus a little). So I thought I'd probe the "collective" about potential troubleshooting methods.
I'm using pyrocat-HD in GLYCOL 2:2:100 for Tri-X, 500 ml of solution at about 70 degrees, 30 seconds initial agitation followed by 10 seconds each minute. 500 ml will give me a solution depth of 3/8". The non-high density areas look good.
Now my pyrocat solution A and B are about 2 years old, and as a consequence there's a relatively large amount of air "headspace" in the bottle.
The usual suspects are old developer and not enough solution in the tray, so to troubleshoot, I'll try fresh developer, more developer, and maybe a different developer since I have some fresh PMK I was playing around with.
Any other ideas?
Thanks! Steve
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